Judaism

In my last blog I discussed the results of the Pew Study and the implications of the reported trends for Jews in America and for Conservative Judaism. Recently, a new study published by Dr. Theodore Sasson re-analyzed the data collected by the Pew researchers and drew different conclusions in a few key areas, leading to new insights and different directions for Jewish leadership to take to strengthen the Conservative Movement.

You’ve probably seen or heard about the results of the recent Survey of U.S. Jews conducted by the Pew Research Center. (If not, here is a link to an on-line version of the Survey Report: http://pewrsr.ch/16IN5U4.) There has been a spate of articles over the past several days that have tried to make sense of the data, and to draw conclusions and recommendations about what might be done to mitigate the negative trends that were highlighted by the survey.